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401 Key Terms
Role of Finance/Accounting
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Accounting | the process of keeping and interpreting financial records |
| accounts payable | all monies owed by the business to others |
| accounts receivable | all monies owed to a firm by its customers |
| acquisition of funds | finance activity involving making decisions about financing |
| administration of assets | finance activity involving making decisions about a firm's investments |
| asset(s) | anything of value that a business or individual owns |
| capital budgeting | a process in which of firm's financial managers determine which projects it should invest in |
| capital investment decisions | decisions that determine which projexts a business will invest in, how the investments will be financed and whether to pay dividends to shareholders |
| capital structure | a firm's mix of financing, usually some combination of debt and equity |
| cash conversion cycle | ratio that refers to the number of days between a company paying for raw materials and receiving cash from selling the products made from those raw materials |
| debt funding | using money that is lent by a bank or other institution to finance a project |
| dividend | a sum of money paid to an investors or stockholders as earnings on an investment. |